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Re: Small bug with numeric in 7.0 (also in 6.5.3)

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Dirk Lutzebaeck <lutzeb@aeccom.com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Raul Chirea <raul@brahms.ro>, pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-05-15T14:06:40Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs 
Dirk Lutzebaeck <lutzeb@aeccom.com> writes:
> $ pg_dump cs1 -o > /tmp/x.dump
> parseNumericArray: bogus number

IIRC, this is what you see when you run a 6.5 pg_dump against a 7.0
database (or perhaps it was vice versa).

There's been talk of putting stricter version checking into pg_dump,
but that might introduce its own problems...

			regards, tom lane